Python being an interpreted language may be one of the worst case scenarios there. Whenever I try using python from either a docker container of a foreign CPU architecture using qemu, or even a proot on Android , it's dog slow as well.
Yeah, would definitely prefer using a package manager from a maintained repository like nix over raw dogging remote shell scripts. E.g. from nixpkg
nix-env -iA secretspec -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/nixpkgs-unstable
There have been an influx of them in my RSS feeds, I wonder if there's been a You Tube or Tick Tock video that went viral about Nix some time earlier.
I'm not the author, but I agree it feels nice on mobile, and the dark and light mode is a nice touch. I think it takes a hint from the browser system settings too.
Wireless ear buds come to mind. Plus the charging case, that could be three separate batteries per headset audio device. I don't like the idea of wireless earbuds personally, but they are admittedly prevalent in the consumer market. The thumbnail should have depicted those.
Agreed, much prefer running apps via nix. Although I did have to fall back to flatpak install the bottles, but that is a bit of a special case where the software explicitly requires itself to be sandboxed or behaves less as expected otherwise.
I really appreciate the comma command.
I only have 3 installs of NixOS already, two for work (a server and laptop), and a third for a personal use (desktop). I largely started out by copying a public config from the community. Now I just copy a few kilobytes between the three from time to time via git repo to keep all my kernels, kernel modules, patches, net config, package versions, and system users/groups permissions in sync via lock files. And my user dot files too, but you don't need nix for that last one.
If I have to do something multiple times, like copying a distro across even a few systems more than once, then I figured I'd just revision control it via lockfiles like any other software project.
That all said, NixOS is a hell of a rabbit hole; great for lazy admins and hobby tinkering alike:
The top graph reflects my stable work install for robot software development,
but the bottom graph is my personal install for hobbies and home lab.
Moving nixpkgs development from GitHub would be ambitious, as that repo already pushes their infrastructure limits with enterprise level support.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-core-team-update-2026-01-22/74585/11
I suspect the Nix org would need to garner many more sponsors to fund the hosting expenditures for an equivalent forge with matching CI/CD, PR automation, and geo redundancy. Would be nice to see.
I love the comma command. Great for things I only use every blue moon and am fine with being cleaned up by garbage collection.
Wow, hello fellow Rose alum! Class of 2013 here, so don't I remember if IT was advertising an Eduroam SSID back then, but the standard issued corporate HP laptops had decent Linux support, or at least someone in the class cohort would find and disseminate a workaround by the time the next LTS kennel rolled around.
Definitely agree on seeking out a local LUG on campus. As originally an EE while at RHIT, I didn't know about LUGs until I continued on to grad school for CS at GT, which had a very active LUG with invited guest speakers and even senior student led lectures.
Looks like the hosting for lugatgt.org is now down, hope they're still going, or perhaps merged with ALE of Atlanta.
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You might want to try https://audiobookshelf.org/
It has some polished mobile clients as well browser support:
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf